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Hi Folks, I am glad to announce 1.0 release of BackgrounDRb. This would be a major release since 0.2 release of BackgrounDRb. Here is a brief summary of changes: - BackgrounDRb is DRb no longer. It makes use of EventDriven network programming library packet ( http://packet.googlecode.com ). - Since we moved to packet, many nasty thread issues, result hash corruption issues are totally

I am trying to use backgroundrb to execute searches that may take a long time in the background. So a user connects, executes search worker, then periodically pulls to see if result is available using asynchronous javascript request. This way a few long searches don''t make the site unusable to rest by freezing up mongrel connections. Here is the problem - I seem to get a 2-3 second lag